The straight rifling and the over-under percussion rifle of Karl Pirko
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In this chapter Capandball takes you to a voyage to Vienna to the middlle of the 19th century. The star of the show is a percussion over-under double rifle made by Karl Pirko with an interesting straight rifled bore.
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