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The Wesson & Harrington company was at 18 Manchester Street, Worcester, Mass., from 1871 until 1877. ... Ultra Hunter, Buffalo Classic, CR Carbine, and Sportster ...
The Frank Wesson rifle was the first breech-loading rifle designed for these metallic cartridges. [3] Frank Wesson (1828–1899) and N.S. Harrington were granted patent 25,926, 'Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms' in 1859, [4] and Frank Wesson was granted patent 36,925, 'Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms' [5] in 1862.
Buffalo Bore offers +P rated cartridges with either 100 gr (6.5 g) JHP or 130 gr (8.4 g) Keith hard cast SWC bullets. [ 7 ] Since the .32 H&R Magnum headspaces on the rim and shares the rim dimensions and case and bullet diameters of the shorter .32 S&W and .32 S&W Long cartridges, these shorter cartridges may be safely fired in arms chambered ...
Gilbert Henderson Harrington was born on April 17, 1845, in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to Cornelia Bush (née Wesson) and Henry Henderson Harrington. [1] [2] His father was a farmer. [3] His maternal uncle was gun manufacturer Daniel B. Wesson. [1] The family moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, while he was still a child. As a boy, he worked at ...
The .32 S&W cartridge (also known as the .32 S&W Short) was introduced in 1878 for Smith & Wesson pocket revolvers. It was originally designed as a black powder cartridge. The .32 S&W was offered to the public as a light defense cartridge for "card table" distances. [2] The .32 S&W Short was the basis for several other .32-caliber handgun ...
A group of Catholic nuns on Tuesday sued the board of Smith & Wesson to try to force the gunmaker to abandon the manufacture, marketing and sales of assault-style rifles that have been used in U.S ...
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Harrington & Richardson. Model 2 Double Action Revolver United States: 1,300,000 [125] Smith & Wesson N-frame (including models 27, 28 and 29) 1,300,000 [126] [127] 333,454 S-prefix serial numbers. 970,000 N-prefix serial numbers. Mannlicher M1886 and M1888: Bolt-action rifle Austria-Hungary: 1,200,000 [128] [129] Walther P38: Semi-automatic ...