Loading Rifle
No. 2, In North Britain, Alexander Henry of Edinburgh was the most celebrated British rifle maker. He invented a system of grooving which made him famous the Martini-Henry rifle, a mili- Renwick Collection courtesy of Captain Wm. G. Renwick. tary arm much in use up to twenty-five years ago, was bored and grooved upon his system. In double barrel sporting rifles he advocated larger bore and more weight than most of his contemporaries. The specimen shown weighs llf pounds and shoots a seventeen...
No.7 Wm. Jenks 1838 54. Calibre
length of barrel 21 inches calibre .54. The hook-shaped catch for the preceding pattern having not only proved inconvenient for the cavalryman but also capable of inflicting troublesome wounds, a remedy was sought in this device. No. J, Hall. 3d type. Marked S. North, Middletown, Conn., 1842. The principal difference between this arm and No. 2 is in the catch. Improvement questionable. These three types were made from 1833 to 1843, and each is believed to be one of the first of its type issued,...
No Miller Rifle Militia
A device for the conversion of muzzle loaders employed during 1865. No. 1, Model 1865y Springfield Conversion. Regulation. Beginning the era of the metallic cartridge military breech loader. Shortly after the close of the Civil War in April, 1865, a Board was appointed to select a breech loading system for the army. The enormous stock of muzzle loading arms on hand was too valuable to be discarded immediately, so the government invited inventors to submit to the Board designs for converting...
No Model Rifle Regulation
Although, in the very founding of the United States, regiments of volunteer civilian infantry, armed with their own Kentucky rifles, proved again and again infinitely superior in battle to regiments of veteran soldiers armed with smooth bores, nevertheless the new United States let nearly twenty-five years go by before attempting to make military rifles. But the prospect of war with France, at the close of the 18th century, awoke the martial spirit of the new little nation, and revived old...
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anism. Business purchased about 1875 by Oliver F. Winchester and thereafter discontinued. No. 3, Evans rifle. Warren R. Evans' patent of 1871. Made by the Evans Repeating Rifle Co., Mechanic Falls, Maine. The magazine, holding from 26 to 32 cartridges, was a large steel tube on which the top and bottom parts of the butt were fastened. Within the magazine a helix, revolved by the movement of the trigger guard, fed the ammunition to the chamber without the use of a spring. Discontinued about...
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No. i, Allen amp Wheelock rifle. Ethan Allen's patent of 1860. Used rim fire 44 calibre copper cartridges. The breech action not being very strong, the issue of this rifle was discontinued about the time that improved center fire cartridges became common. No. 2, Sharps rifle, Model 1874. This model differs, in the action, from its paper and linen cartridge predecessors only in the slight changes necessary for metallic cartridge ammunition. This specimen used the 40-65-330 bottle neck cartridge,...
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percussion 103-109 British of 1812 War 211-216 British, in World War 206, 243 Broken Shell, Ext'r 326 Brooks 229 Brown Mfg Co. 172,240 Browning 282 Browning Formulae 336-340 Broughton 173, 174 Buck 113, 183 Buffalo Shooting 114 Buffington-Process 378 Buggy Rifle 59 Bulgarian, in World War 221 Bullard 114, 124 Bullet Seater 322 Bullet Speeds 312, 314, 315 Bullet Starter 82 Bullets, composite 82. 83, 85 patched 82, 83 picket 89 sphcrical 141, 313 conical 114,143,149.301-306 explosive 302, 303...
1859 Bethel-burton Rifle
a metal disc like a washer with a hole in the center occupied by a percussion cap. The bullets were carried in a magazine below the barrel and fed by a simple mechanism actuated by swinging the trigger guard for a lever. No. 9, Springfield Model 1854. Marked Springfield 1854 U. S. Muzzle loading, calibre .54. Brass fore end tip, otherwise iron mounted. Ramrod attached to the barrel by a swivel. No. 10y Pistol Carbine Model 1855.' Marked Springfield 1855 U. S. Calibre .58. Muzzle loading....
Rifles Used Against The United States Since
The Rifle of the British in Our War of 1812 No. 1, The Baker rifle. After a rather discouraging review of the military rifles of the present day it is refreshing to turn once more to the elementary arms of past generations. We of the present have at hand a large accumulation of basic ballistical knowledge and a present and future of immense opportunity in the realm of general science applicable to small-arms, and yet in fatuous conceit we are standing still. Our forbears, however, started with...
Military Rifle Specialists
Am. Arms Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass., Civ. War Smith carbines. Am. Machine Wks., Springfield, Mass., Civ. War, Smith carbines. Ames, N. P., Co., Springfield, Mass. Mex. amp Civ. War rifles Jenks carbines amp rifles. Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N. H. Civ. War, 27001 rifle mus. Ballard Arms Co., Fall River, Mass. Civ. War Ballard arms. Brooks, William F., N. Y., N. Y. Civ. War, Gibbs carb. Brown Mfg. Co., Ncwburyport, Mass. Brown rifles. Ballard rifles. Burnside Rifle Co., Providence, R. I....
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cning of the grip by cutting away wood there for the lock seat. The bar lock Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are bar locks soon regained leadership. The hammer of this Forsyth cap lock contains the usual hollow in its striking end, but is not vented there, as were hammers of later make. The cone for this lock is seated in a recess in the standing breech, the rain drain of which runs backward after the cap lock had been in use a few years the rain drain was vented forward, which was a more logical way, sincc a...
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of spelter and copper, ships' cargoes of explosives, countless other things. The plant is so designed that each raw material is stored at the beginning of its journey along the road to becoming a finished part, and all finished parts meet where they are to be assembled, and nothing retrogrades during any part of its journey. But we who follow the making of a rifle have to go forwards, and backwards, and crosswise, because we have to journey to the same end several times, each time by a...
No Springfield Model Artillery Rifle Musk et Regulation
Calibre .58. Weight about 8 pounds. Length of barrel about 33 inches. Two bands. Except for adherence to these specifications the details of this class of arms did not follow a prescribed rule. These arms were made during 1863, T64 and '65 from the left-overs of rifles and muskets of 1865 and preceding years. The specimen shown has a lock of the 1861 pattern bearing the date of 1862 a cut-down barrel dated 1863 a re-shaped Model 1841 stock, and a butt plate of 1819 pattern. Some of the...
Rifle Ornamentation
breech loader has already been described. One step more remained to be taken, and that was to incorporate the cap in the cartridge. For center fire cartridges the evolution of the BerdajOL primer was that next step. Perhaps it is needless to say that Dr. Maynard adopted it at once and produced gas-tight breech loaders. Of course after the method proved to be the right one the reasons became apparent. The gas generated by the explosion of the powder acts quicker on the elastic walls of the shell...
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No. i, Klein rifle. The design of this arm was claimed by P. H. Klein, gunmaker, of New York City. This needle rifle was probably the first American bolt action rifle. Mr. Klein, however, was by no means the first inventor of the action, for it was an almost exact copy of that designed by Jean Nicholas Dreyse, of S mmerda, Germany, who patented it in 1836, and the fame of which later sounded throughout Europe. From the Dreyse gun sprang all the bolt action needle rifles famous up to and through...
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No. i, Cochran rifle. John Webster Cochran's patent of 1837. Eight, shots. On account of rearward pointing loaded chambers this device was a dangerous one many sad accidents occurred with Cochran and Porter, too arms, and both in their day were heaped with odium, in spite of which many were made and purchasers for them found. Other inventors recognized the impossibility of using the turret and the wheel movements and avoided them. The turret has now, however, been successfully applied as a...
Percussion Forsyth Pistol
shotgun for a priming he discpvered that it gave better results when ignited by a blow than by a spark out of this small beginning all subsequent developments grew. Several years were spent in developing a gun-lock suitable to this new method of firing a charge of gunpowder in 1805 one was fixed upon and applied to his fowling-piece. He shot with that gun all of the season of 1805 and took it to London in the spring of 1806 to show to some of his sporting friends. By the time he received his...
No Springfield Model Rifle Musket Regulation 1
Ending the era of the military muzzle loader. Changes from the Model 1863 consisted of a reversion to band springs and flat bands change in the shape of the head of the ramrod change in the means of securing the rear swivel improved type of rear sight. Otherwise like the Model 1863. After the battle of Gettysburg, fought July 1 to 3, 1863, there were gathered from the battlefield something like twenty thousand guns, muzzle loaders mostly, the majority of which were loaded with from two to ten...
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No. ly Smith amp Wesson pocket rifle. Made from about 1880 to about 1885. The detachable stock had a very powerful fastening to insure its firmness. The quotation which follows is from a sporting goods dealer's catalogue of 1880 6-shot, .32 calibre extra long centre fire shell made expressly for this arm. The only small calibre metallic cartridge repeating rifle in the world. We can state from experience that it is the most marvelous shooter we ever handled. It will shoot accurately 300 yards,...
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In the Civil War, Federal Troops used arms made in the government armories, or made for the government by contractors, or purchased by the government from foreign nations. State troops, on the other hand, usually were armed according to the choice of officers or men, and the arms were the property of either the state or the individuals bearing them, and did not belong to the United States Government. Thus it was possible for a regiment of cavalry composed perhaps of eight troops from as many...
No i The action part of an Offhand Model Ballard For other Ballard s see Index
No. 2, Model 1881, the first repeater. It was made in a series of three, for 40 60 260, 45 70 405, and 45-85-285, all, in their day, considered powerful cartridges. This model was discontinued and superseded by No. 3, Model 1889. In this model the opening for ejection of shells was changed from the top to the right side of the frame, leaving the top solid to prevent the entrance of objectionable matter. The gate in the frame, which in the model 1881 was a sliding one, now was hinged at the...
France
No. 2, Lebel rifle, adopted in 1886 the first small bore rifle black powder of any nation, and the first to use smokeless powder. Calibre 8 mm., or .315. Eight cartridges are carried in a tubular magazine below the barrel with one in the receiver and one in the barrel 10 are the total. Length of rifle 4 feet 3.12 inches. Length of bayonet 1 fool 8.72 inches. Weight without bayonet 9 pounds 3 ounces. Four grooves with one turn in about 9 inches. Boat shaped bullet Balle D of solid bronze copper...
Pennsylvania Rifle Ardesa
m M. gt V r - yy.', - rv. V .-M .-Xrr. No. lf Pepperbox rifle. Four barrels of different calibres are bored in one piece of iron. There are two lock plates, one on each side, each having two hammers of the mule ear variety. A single trigger throws whichever hammer is cocked if two or more hammers are cocked at the same time all go at once. This arm is selected from many of its kind because it combines all their faults. On account of the waste metal between bores the rifle weighs pounds and has...
No f Springfield Model Regulation
The policy of converting muzzle loaders was now in part abandoned and some entirely new barrels were made. There wei no radical changes in the appearance of the new gun, but there were many minor improvements. The length of the new arm, stamped Model 1868, was reduced to about 4 feet 4 inches, and its weight to 9 pounds. The extracting device was considerably strengthened and simplified, and the latch was made more secure. The ammunition remained the same. No picture. Cadet Size Model 1868....
Savage
The Savage Arms Corporation, of Utica, N. Y. was the development in 1917 of the Savage Arms Company which was organized in 1893 to manufacture a type of hammerless, solid breech, revolving box magazine rifle designed by Arthur Savage, Superintendent of the Utica Street Railway, to handle the .303 Savage cartridge. The cartridge was a smokeless powder one with a jacketed bullet in power it was greater than the popular .30-30, and approached that of the newr U. S. military cartridge. The Savage...
Rifle Illustration
mostly without firearms of any kind about 600 were La Fitte's pirates, armed with cutlasses and pistols part of them served the 13 cannon , and the rest were for hand-to-hand fighting in case the enemy scaled the breastworks their influence upon the battle was very small there were about 500 regulars armed with muskets at close range they counted for something and then there were about 500 regulars armed with Model 1800 Rifles, and about 2,100 militia from Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana who...
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No. 1, Merrill-Lair obe-Thomas. About 1859 This arm and the Deringer shown on Plate 31, No. 1, are remarkably similar, barring the construction of the lock and the 1855 priming magazine on this one. Breech loading. Paper cartridge, calibrc .58. Made by Remington. Throwing forward the top lever rotates a cylindrical shaft which is perpendicular to the axis of the bore, and brings an opening in the shaft in line with the bore. The paper cartridge is then pushed into place by a piston worked by...
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and barrel as the American military rifle and using the same sort of ammunition. As our military rifles are not made in sporting grades the alternative is to alter a military rifle. No. 1 shows an Adolph Remodeled Springfield Rifle. In rebuilding, the following parts are discarded stock, guard, bands, sights, and bolt stop pin. The barrel and action are then refinished and a sporting shape stock is made to measure to fit the user. No. 2 shows the same arm with an Adolph telescope sight and...
Delvigne M1841 1848 Rifle
the rifling had been tried between 1 turn in 10 feet and 1 in 6 feet. The first alteration to cap lock was made by screwing the cone into the barrel the second by screwing a plug into the touch hole and seating the cone in the plug the third consisted of brazing a lug on the barrel to take the cone and a fourth consisted in cutting off the breech of the barrel and screwing on a newr breech which had a chamber of less diameter than the bore of the barrel and a ledge around the outer edge of this...
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Deringer, Henry, Senior, Richmond, Va., about l OO-1806 Phila., Penn., 1806 until his death. Derr, John, Lancaster, Penn. End of the flint period. Dreppert, Lancaster, Penn. Perhaps son of F. Drippard. Dunkle, G., Path Valley, Penn. Ellis, Reuben, Albany, N. Y. Emmes, Nathaniel, Boston, Mass. Before 1825. Ernst, J., Penn. Finch, Joseph, N. Y., N. Y. Died 1828. French, Thomas, Canton, Mass., born 1778, died 1862. Giles, Richards amp Co., Boston, Mass. Hall, John H., Yarmouth, Me., until 1816....
War of Rifles of Spain
No. 4, Spain used the widely known Mauser rifle, pattern of 1892. The Spanish Mauser was about 49 inches long, had a barrel length of about 28 inches, weighed about 8 pounds, and was of calibre 7 mm. Nearly all were marked 14 Loewe amp Co., Berlin. M Of rifles and carbines together the United States captured between twenty-one and twenty-two thousand. Many thousand of them, in almost new condition, were refinished at our Springfield Armory, giving the Ordnance officers in command there the...
Confederate States
Manufacturers and Repairers of Rifled Shoulder Arms the period of the Confederate States was from 1861 to 1865 . Beech amp Rigdon, or Leech amp Rigdon C. Chapman Cook amp Bro. New Orleans, before 1863. Athens, Ga. 1863-1866. Dickson, Nelson amp Co.-- Alabama Fayetteville Arsenal Fayetteville, N. C. Wm. Glaze amp Co. Columbia S. C. Sometimes stamped his work with this name and sometimes Palmetto Armory ' Hyde amp Goodrich New Orleans, La. W. S. McElwainc Holly Springs, Miss. Died 1882....
No Greene Oval Bore Rifle Regulation
Marked Greene's Patent Nov. 17, 1857. Length about 52 inches length of barrel 36 inches calibre of bore before ovaling .53, depth of cutting each side .008, making the calibre .546 pitch 1 turn in about 50 inches. Weight without bayonet 10 pounds. The charge, in a paper packet, was 2 inches long, and contained 68 grains of powder and a Minie bullet weighing an ounce and a quarter. The wood was filled and coated writh linseed oil. The hammer was case-hardened in colors the ramrod was bright...
No Model Rifle Regulation 1
The Model 1841 was the first U. S. Government infantry rifle with percussion lock. It was also the first which, in recognition of the fearful kick of our former military rifles, used a reduced powder charge for the old style half-ounce ball, thereby raising the trajectory. The Model 1841 also marked the end of all our flint lock military arms. The last of such flint locks smooth bores made in the government shops were finished in 1842, and the percussion lock was officially adopted then. From...
Rifle Accessories
Information regarding tools for casting, sizing, lubricating and seating bullets for capping, de-capping, sizing, opening and crimping shells and about machines for measuring powder with a fair amount of accuracy, can be had in the Ideal Handbook, which is or at least long has been distributed gratis by sporting goods stores to customers. Bullet sealer. In target shooting with lead bullets there is advantage to seating the bullet separately in the rifling ahead of the shell. It can be done very...