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Uncommon card · Science
Percussion cap, an Uncommon card
The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Its invention gave rise to the caplock mechanism or percussion lock system which used percussion caps struck by the hammer to set off the gunpowder charge in rifles and cap and ball firearms.
- Any firearm using a caplock mechanism is a percussion gun.
- Any long gun with a cap-lock mechanism and rifled barrel is a percussion rifle.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Percussion cap article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Percussion cap
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Percussion cap (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thuringius, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
