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The Henry Single Shot rifle is also available in hardened brass or steel in over 10 centerfire calibers. Henry Repeating Arms released the Side-Gate lever-action rifle chambered in .30-30 Win, .38-55 Win, .35 Rem, and .45-70 Gov't in 2018. This is their first rifle to feature a loading gate allowing ammo to be loaded, reloaded, or topped off as ...
According to firearms historian Herbert G. Houze, one man armed with a Henry rifle was the equivalent of 14 or 15 men equipped with single-shot guns. [7] Benito Juárez's forces obtained a number of Henry rifles from gun runners during their war against the French. [10]
Pages in category "Single-shot rifles" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Stevens Boys Rifles; Swinburn–Henry; T. Tabatière rifle
Over 1 million single-shot M1871 and 1.1 million magazine-fed M1871/84 'Chassepot' Fusil Modèle 1866: Single-shot rifle France: 2,000,000 Winchester Model 1200/1300/120: Pump-action shotgun United States: 1,900,000 [92] Stevens Model 87: Semi-automatic rifle 1,000,000 1,800,000 [110] Thompson submachine gun: Submachine gun 1,700,000 TT pistol
During the American Civil War, an assortment of small arms found their way onto the battlefield.Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union and Confederate armies, many other firearms, ranging from the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's first ...
The Ruger No. 1 is a single-shot rifle with a Farquharson-style hammerless falling-block action, introduced and manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co. since 1967. [4] An underlever lowers the breechblock to allow ammunition loading and also cocks the rifle. Lenard Brownell, commenting on his work at Ruger, said of the No. 1: "There was never any ...
The Martini–Henry is a breech-loading single-shot rifle with a lever action that was used by the British Army. It first entered service in 1871, eventually replacing the Snider–Enfield, a muzzle-loader converted to the cartridge system. Martini–Henry variants were used throughout the British Empire for 47 years.
Two forms of single-shot pistol, however, remained: single-shot derringers, and target pistols, which were essentially single-shot rifle actions cut down to pistol size. The Remington Rolling Block is perhaps the most well-known of these. As the era of single-shot rifles faded, so did these early single-shot pistols.