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The Model 1851 was replaced in production by the Model 1853. Christian Sharps left the company in 1855 to form his own manufacturing company called "C. Sharps & Company" in Philadelphia; Lawrence continued as the chief armorer until 1872 and developed the various Sharps models and their improvements that made the rifle famous. [7]
Side view of a Sharps model 1859 carbine with the action open. Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was the manufacturer of the Sharps Rifle. The company was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 9, 1851 with $100,000 in capital. Despite Sharps departing from the company ...
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single-shot hammerless falling-block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.It closely resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle.
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It first appeared in 1879, manufactured by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.Eventually Remington took over production and produced copies in .45-70.Arguably this was the most modern rifle in the world, until the introduction of the 8mm Lebel M1886 rifle using smokeless powder, the Remington-Lee rifle utilized the first successful detachable box magazine, unlike the Lebel rifle which was ...
The U.S. Army ordered both rolling-block rifles and carbines in .50-70 and made some rolling blocks at their Springfield Armory facility in this caliber. [5] The U.S. Army also had a large supply of percussion -fired Sharps carbines at the close of the Civil War and had the Sharps Rifle Company convert about 31,000 of the rolling-block rifles ...
The .45-90 Sharps, also known as the .45-2 4 ⁄ 10" Sharps, is a black powder rifle cartridge introduced in 1877 by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company and was developed for hunting and long range target shooting. In the modern day, it is used for Black Powder Cartridge Rifle competitions. [1]
Schmidt–Rubin rifles (Switzerland – rifle – 1889/1891) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (German Empire – semi-automatic pistol – 1898) Sharps Rifle (US – rifle – 1848) Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 carbine (US – rifle – 1862) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (Austria-Hungary – pistol – 1898) Schönberger-Laumann (Austria-Hungary – pistol ...