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The New York sporting goods firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham purchased two small New England cartridge manufacturers in 1866. Machinery from the Crittenden & Tibbals Manufacturing Company of South Coventry, Connecticut, and from C.D. Leet of Springfield, Massachusetts, was moved to Bridgeport where ammunition production began as the Union Metallic Cartridge & Cap Company until the operation ...
The Meriden Firearms Company of Meriden, Connecticut, USA manufactured small arms from 1905 to 1918. Meriden manufactured 20 varieties of hammer and hammerless revolvers with an output of 100 handguns a day in 1906. In addition to revolvers the company manufactured shotguns and rifles. [1]
The official press release sent out by U.S. Repeating Arms concerning the closure was released on January 17, 2006. The text is included below: U.S. Repeating Arms Company To Close New Haven, CT Facility – U.S. Repeating Arms Company, maker of Winchester brand rifles and shotguns will close its New Haven, Connecticut manufacturing facility.
Standard Manufacturing was founded by Louis M. Frutuoso in 2014 as a subsidiary to Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company. Connecticut Shotgun was manufacturing, repairing, and distributing high-end shotguns and sports-related products. To branch out into the industry, Standard Mfg. was created as a separate name to serve to new demographic ...
The cartridges are made using ammunition equipment sold by Fritz Werner Manufacturing, which is why the headstamp's font and markings look German-made. .303 British was phased out for 7.62mm NATO since the mid-1960s and is now sold as a hunting and sporting cartridge. 12 gauge shotgun shells are sold to civilians for hunting. 7.62×39mm Soviet ...
James Willard "Jim" Harvey (May 7, 1893 - September 16, 1962) [1] was an American designer of firearms, cartridges, and fishing lures, based out of Lakeville, Connecticut. [ 2 ] Among his firearms innovations, Harvey invented the .224 Harvey Kay-Chuck handgun cartridge, a wildcat cartridge based on the .22 Hornet , modified to fire in revolvers ...
Meigs was replaced in the mid-1870s by Charles Dimon, who had been an officer under Butler's command during the Civil War. By the early 1880s, the company employed 250 workers producing cartridges, paper-shot-shells, and primers. Paul Butler assumed control of the company when his father died in 1893.
In 1981, the U.S. Repeating Arms Company was established by Winchester employees to purchase the rights to manufacture Winchester-branded rifles and shotguns in New Haven, Connecticut, under license from Olin. Production of ammunition and cartridge components under the Winchester Ammunition Inc. name were retained by Olin and not licensed to USRAC.