For quality reasons, mechanical means of stunning such as a captive bolt pistol are not recommended.

Ragnar sighted along the barrel of his bolt pistol looking for targets.

He held his bolt pistol ready in his right hand.

He leapt up from his hiding place, bolt pistol spitting death.

It held a bolt pistol of equally antique design in each hand.

Without thinking Ragnar raised his bolt pistol and snapped off a shot.

At a gesture from him, they bolstered their bolt pistols.

Kasteen tracked her target with the bolt pistol and fired.

Her bolt pistol would never come up to aim in time, and I was too far away to intervene.

There seem to be at least two cases in which a bolt pistol is used as a murder weapon.