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"The Sharps Rifle". RifleShooter Magazine. Outdoor Sportsman Group. Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. "Sharps Big 50 Buffalo Rifle". NRAMuseum.org. NRA National Firearms Museum. "Shiloh Sharps" [Only Company in the World whose parts interchange with the original Sharps rifles]. Big Timber, Montana: Shiloh Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.
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 ...
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Sharps rifle: The Sharps rifle was a falling-block rifle used during and after the American Civil War. It was particularly associated with the 1st and 2nd United States Sharpshooters: Spencer repeating rifle: The Spencer M1860 was a manually operated lever-action repeating rifle fed from a tube magazine with cartridges.
Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle; Henry repeating rifle [2] Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket [4] Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket; Peabody M1862 Action rifle; Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle; Spencer repeating carbine and rifle [2] Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle; Trade musket [5]
Shiloh produces two basic models of rifle, the Sharps 1863 which is a percussion rifle, and the Sharps 1874, which is a black-powder cartridge rifle (BPCR). Both rifles are produced in several variants, such as single or double trigger, upgraded wood, finish, etc. Various barrel lengths and shapes (round, octagonal, half-round, etc.).
Example of a Sharps Carbine. The name "Beecher's Bibles" in reference to Sharps rifles and carbines was inspired by the comments and activities of the abolitionist New England minister Henry Ward Beecher, [5] of the New England Emigrant Aid Society, of whom it was written in a February 8, 1856, article in the New-York Tribune: [6] Beecher was an outspoken abolitionist and he raised funds to ...
Not all cavalry used this method of draw, or located their holsters on the right hand side of the body. In the "Manual of Arms for the Sharps Rifle, Colt Revolver and Swords (1861)", [1] which was used by the Union Army, the revolver would have been worn on the left side, in front of the sabre-hook. To draw the revolver, the soldiers were ...