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The Ballard Rifle was designed and patented by Charles H. Ballard in November 1861 in Worcester, Massachusetts. [1] Around 3,000 were made between 1862 and 1865, with some being used for military use in Kentucky. [1] Ballard rifles used by Kentucky Volunteers will have Kentucky marked on them.
The .38-55 Winchester / 9.6x53mmR cartridge (actually .3775 caliber), also known as the .38-55 WCF and the .38-55 Ballard, [4] is a centerfire rifle cartridge. It was based on an earlier cartridge called the .38-50 Ballard Everlasting that was introduced in 1876 by the Ballard Rifle & Cartridge Company .
However, it has been said that in a modern rifle it can be loaded to equal the .30-30 Winchester up to 300 yards (270 m). [3] In 2020, a Model 1894 Winchester rifle made in 1912 chambered in .32-40 Winchester was used by David J. LaPell in the Adirondack Mountains of New York to shoot a whitetail buck at the distance of approximately 60 yards.
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.
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A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
Most of the revolvers and rifle which were produced were chambered for either .38 short rifle, or .38 long rifle. While there were a few different rifles produced for the .38 extra long cartridge and a few rolling block , falling block , and bolt-action rifles had smoothbore barrels which had a slight choke which enabled it to shoot the .38 RF ...
It was the first self-contained metallic cartridge for a repeating rifle. [i].56-56 Spencer cartridge, bullet diameter .546 inches. Designed for the Spencer repeating rifle and carbine, patented 6 March 1860, it was employed by cavalry during the American Civil War, first appearing at Sharpsburg in rifle form.