Many earlier percussion rifles and muskets were converted to rolling block designs in the interim before the development of more modern bolt-action designs.

Age of Rifles simulates battles throughout the era of percussion rifles, roughly comprising the second half of the 19th century.

John Fawley still carried the new percussion rifle with him wherever he went, not so much for Indians anymore but for ornery white men.

John never took the scatter gun on his hunting trips, only his new percussion rifle.

The other companies in the regiment were given older "George Law" smoothbore muskets, which had been converted from flintlocks to percussion rifles.

Some of the soldiers on the barge, an-ned with percussion rifles, began a ragged fusillade.

His son, a plump blond boy of about fourteen, sat on the wagon seat, guarding the liquor and the nearby tent with an old but powerful Hawken percussion rifle.

The percussion rifle is a rifle that uses a percussion cap instead of older flintlock or matchlock variants.

No." "What about my percussion rifle?

"About percussion rifles?"