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Main article: Rifled breech loader. The first modern breech-loading rifled gun is a breech-loader invented by Martin von Wahrendorff with a cylindrical breech plug secured by a horizontal wedge in 1837. In the 1850s and 1860s, Whitworth and Armstrong invented improved breech-loading artillery.
The history of the single-shot that tamed the West began on September 12, 1848, when Christian Sharps patented a unique breech-loading rifle that utilized a lever-operated sliding breechblock.
Coupling a surprisingly robust screw breech block/plug with rifling Ferguson’s rifle was said to be capable of an impressive seven rounds per minute. It has the distinction of being the first breech-loading rifle adopted for service and used in action by the British Army.
EVOLUTION OF THE BREECHLOADER. This is the Museum space displaying Springfield Armory weapons developed after the American Civil War. Springfield Armory NHS, US NPS. The standard weapon used by both sides during the Civil War was a muzzle-loading .58 caliber rifle musket.
Arguably the most famous single shot rifle of the American West, the 1874 Sharps falling block rifle story began in 1848 when Christian Sharps patented his first breech-loading rifle and carbine design using paper cartridges ignited by a separate musket cap.
The .22-caliber Rocky Mountain Arms Corporation breech-loading black powder rifle. This report covers: What if…? Format change! RMAC; How it works; Who was RMAC? Smokeless powder? A find; Summary; What the heck is a black powder rifle report doing in an airgun blog? Well, if you’ve been a reader for any length of time you know that it all ...
In 1848, Christian Sharps invented the breech-loading Sharps .52 caliber rifles that were a favorite of the plainsmen of the West and of both Union and Confederate soldiers during the war. Sharpshooters could pick off a sniper at 800 yards.