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The Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech-loading rifles to be put into service by the British military. It was designed by Major Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780). It fired a standard British carbine ball of .615" calibre and was used by the British Army in the American Revolutionary War at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, and possibly at the Siege of Charleston in 1780.
In the case of cylindrical breech guns, as the lever was rotated back, a loading arm on the left side of the gun seated a ball in the breech in front of the powder. [23] On sliding breech block Kalthoff guns, a bullet would drop into the leftmost chamber as the gun was pointed upwards, and a plunger would seat the ball in the barrel as the left ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, in China, an early form of breech-loading musket, known as the Che Dian Chong, was known to have been created in the second half of the 16th century for the Ming dynasty's arsenals. [6] Like all early breech-loading fireams, gas leakage was a limitation and danger present in the weapon's mechanism. [7] More breech-loading firearms ...
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 ...
The "Hickok rifle" has a 29.625-inch (75.25 cm) barrel, which is longer than the carbine version's barrel and shorter than the rifle version's barrel, and also has a Kentucky rifle style sloped butt. The trapdoor mechanism is stamped with the year 1870, and the lockplate is stamped with the year 1863, indicating that this rifle was originally ...
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 ...
have a reduced caliber compared to the then standard musket; have reliable ignition, with the means of the caplock mechanism (earlier muskets had been equipped with the flintlock mechanism); be quicker to load than the musket, and therefore be a breech loader; and; be more accurate than the old smoothbore muskets.