page_title: Drum magazine
section_title: Pistols and rifles
hierarchical_section_title: Drum magazine / History and usage / 1900s / Pistols and rifles
caption_attribution_description: English: Винтовка Farquhar-Hill с барабанным магазином
context_page_description: A drum magazine is a type of high-capacity magazine for firearms. Cylindrical in shape, drum magazines store rounds in a spiral around the center of the magazine, facing the direction of the barrel. Drum magazines are contrasted with more common box-type magazines, which have a lower capacity and store rounds flat. The capacity of drum magazines varies, but is generally between 50 and 100 rounds.
context_section_description: A drum magazine was built for the Luger (Pistole 1908) pistol); although the Luger usually used an 8-cartridge box magazine, the optional 32-cartridge Schneckenmagazine ("snail magazine") was also sometimes used. 
  Moubray G. Farquhar and Arthur H. Hill, applied for a British patent for "A New or Improved Cartridge Magazine for Small Arms and Machine Guns" in 1915 for their Farquhar–Hill rifle, and it was accepted in 1919.
caption: The Farquhar-Hill rifle from 1915 used a drum magazine.
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