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  2. Sharps rifle - Wikipedia

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    Sharps Model 1852 "slanting breech" Sharps Model 1852, lock Sharps Model 1852, breech Sharps Model 1852, breech open Sharps Model 1852 "slanting breech" carbine, under the forearm two primer-tapes Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot , falling-block , breech-loading rifles , beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848 ...

  3. Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 - Wikipedia

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    The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single-shot hammerless falling-block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.It closely resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle.

  4. Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Side view of a Sharps model 1859 carbine with the action open. Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was the manufacturer of the Sharps Rifle. The company was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 9, 1851 with $100,000 in capital. Despite Sharps departing from the company ...

  5. Single-shot - Wikipedia

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    Shiloh Sharps Model 1874 Hartford in .50-90 Sharps. In firearm designs, the term single-shot refers to guns that can hold only a single round of ammunition inside and thus must be reloaded manually after every shot.

  6. Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Shiloh produces two basic models of rifle, the Sharps 1863 which is a percussion rifle, and the Sharps 1874, which is a black-powder cartridge rifle (BPCR). Both rifles are produced in several variants, such as single or double trigger, upgraded wood, finish, etc. Various barrel lengths and shapes (round, octagonal, half-round, etc.).

  7. Christian Sharps - Wikipedia

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    Sharps & Hankins not only produced four-barrel pistols, but also the single-shot Model 1861 Navy rifles and the Model 1862 carbines, both of which featured forward "sliding breech actions" and fired the .56-52 Spencer rimfire metallic cartridge. The Sharps and Hankins partnership ended in 1867, and Sharps resumed the manufacturing of firearms ...

  8. List of firearms before the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Allen & Thurber Single-Shot (US – pistol – 1848) Allen & Wheelock Drop Breech (US – rifle – 1860) Apache revolver (Belgium – revolver – c.1869) Arisaka Type 30 rifle (Empire of Japan – rifle – 1897/1899) Arquebus (Dutch – 15th century) Augustin Infantry Musket Model 1842 (Austrian Empire – rifle – 1842)

  9. Starr carbine - Wikipedia

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    The Starr carbine was a breechloading single-shot rifle used by the United States Army. ... the Sharps carbine. [2] The rifle was adopted as the Model 1858 carbine ...