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The Merrill, Latrobe, & Thomas carbine was a carbine designed by James Merrill and manufactured by Samuel Remington of E. Remington and Sons in 1855. The carbine was a .58 caliber, single-shot, breechloader with a 21-inch round barrel and a single barrel band. One hundred and seventy were purchased by the U.S. Ordnance Department for trial use ...
The Mississippi rifle was the first standard U.S. military rifle to use a percussion lock system. Percussion lock systems were much more reliable and weatherproof than the flintlock systems that they replaced, and were such an improvement that many earlier flintlock rifles and muskets were later converted to percussion lock systems.
Maynard carbine; Merrill carbine; Minié rifle; Model 1814 common rifle; Model 1817 common rifle; P. Palmer carbine; Pattern 1853 Enfield; Pattern 1861 Enfield ...
This is an extensive list of antique guns made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.
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S. Savage Model 24; Savage Model 99; SEAL Recon Rifle; Sharps & Hankins model 1862 carbine; Sharps rifle; Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878; SilencerCo Maxim 50; Smith & Wesson Model 1854
The Sartoris carbine, based on the earlier Crespi breech-loader, [3] was an almost identical design issued in limited numbers to the British army from 1817–1825. [4] The brass trigger guard also served as a handle to slide the barrel forward, and the breech pivoted upwards to enable loading in a similar manner to contemporary muzzle loading ...
Model 1863 Springfield rifled musket and Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon Springfield and Enfield actions. The Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon was a short-barrel version (610 mm or 24 inches) of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket, having a faster rifling twist rate (1:48 versus 1:78), along with more rifling grooves (five grooves versus the Pattern 1853's three grooves), which made it as ...