In 1960’s The Alamo, Jim Bowie used a seven-barrel pepperbox rifle. Did such a gun exist? And did the real Bowie have one?

In 1960’s The Alamo, Jim Bowie used a seven-barrel pepperbox rifle. Did such a gun exist? And did the real Bowie have one? Joe “Doc” Amason Delano, California You’re referring to the .52 caliber Nock gun. This seven-barreled flintlock smoothbore firearm, invented by James Wilson in 1779 and produced by Henry Nock, was intended for snipers in the rigging of ships to allow them to fire volleys onto the decks of enemy ships in close-quarter fighting. Unlike a pepperbox, which is a